About the Authors

Bogdan Doroftei

Contributed equally to this work with: Bogdan Doroftei, Cristina Mambet, Mihaela Zlei

Affiliations Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, Origyn Fertility Center, Iasi, Romania

Cristina Mambet

Contributed equally to this work with: Bogdan Doroftei, Cristina Mambet, Mihaela Zlei

Affiliation Synevo Central Laboratory-Medicover Group, Bucuresti, Romania

Mihaela Zlei

Contributed equally to this work with: Bogdan Doroftei, Cristina Mambet, Mihaela Zlei

mihaelazlei@gmail.com

Affiliations Origyn Fertility Center, Iasi, Romania, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Regional Institute of Oncology, Iasi, Romania

Competing Interests

Medicover Group provided support in the form of salaries for author [CM], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors note that one or more of the authors are employed by Medicover Group. The authors mention that only one of the authors is affiliated to the commercial company Medicover and there are no competing interests to declare and no other relevant issues relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. Also, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no restrictions on sharing of data and/or materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD CM MZ. Performed the experiments: BD CM MZ. Analyzed the data: BD CM MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BD CM MZ. Wrote the paper: BD CM MZ.